A few weeks ago I was discussing early modern vocabulary with Tim Hitchcock(as one does on a Wednesday evening). If I recall correctly, he felt that new words likely appeared at roughly the same rate as old words disappeared from the language. In essence, we’re not getting a bigger vocabulary, we’re just using an ever-shifting one. […]
I’ve been conversing with several different music scholars lately about methodology in corpus studies. Some of this has taken place on this blog, some on Twitter, and some over email. I’ve been talking about the same thing with a bunch of different people in a bunch of different places, when this is a conversation that […]
A podcast, video, and slides from Ian Gregory’s #dhist talk ‘Using GIS to explore Historical Texts’ is now available on HistorySpot. Podcast, Video, and Slides Available Here.
Over the past twelve months we have been developing some new approaches to the challenge of providing rich, revealing interfaces to cultural collections. The key idea here is the notion of generous interfaces – an argument that we can (and should) show more of these collections than the search box normally allows; and that there’s […]
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Following up on my previous topic modeling post, I want to talk about one thing humanists actually do with topic models once they build them, most of the time: chart the topics over time. Since I think that, although Topic Modeling can be very useful, there’s too little skepticism about the technique, I’m venturing to provide it […]
When I was a teenager, I was enthralled by interactive fiction. I loved the idea of the web as an infinite landscape, with stories and poems spiraling out in nonlinear directions. Fifteen years later, the web has evolved tremendously… but hypertext-based interactive art and fiction is still a nerdy sideline at best. A cult of […]
Digital media allow us to produce, collect, organise and interpret more data about our lives than ever before. Our every digital interaction contributes to vast databases of information that index our behaviour from online movie choices to mapping networks of connections across Twitter. In an age of uncertainty, big data sets promise to provide an […]
Doing digital humanities often means producing digital geographic maps*. These maps increasingly provide a wide range of spatial objects to represent and as a result tend to present a mix of traditional cartographic principles: Simple pushpins or polygons indicating locations relevant to objects in a collection; chloropleth maps symbolizing geographic variation in a social or […]
It’s time for my annual list of digital history sessions at the American Historical Associationmeeting, this year in New Orleans, January 3-6, 2013. This year’s program extends last year’s surging interest in the effect digital media and technology are having on research and the profession. In addition, a special track for the 2013 meeting is entitled “The Public Practice […]
